July 31, 2009 3:50 pm

It’s official. The Seattle Seahawks released offensive guard Mike Wahle today, along with center David Washington, and signed offensive linemen Grey Ruegamer and Cory Withrow to fill their roster spots.

Wahle, 32, started 138 games in his 11-year career but failed a team physical. He started 10 games for Seattle in 2008, but succumbed to season-ending surgery on his right shoulder last December. It was the same shoulder Wahle had previous surgery on to repair a torn labrum while he was in Carolina.

Seattle also placed cornerback Marcus Trufant on the physically unable to perform list. I’ll find out more about the Trufant injury and have an update after practice. I’m headed out to the field.

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Gregg Bell joined The News Tribune in July 2014. Bell had been the director of writing for the University of Washington's athletic department for four years. He was the senior national sports writer in Seattle for The Associated Press from 2005-10, covering the Seahawks in their first Super Bowl season and beyond. He's also been The Sacramento Bee's beat writer on the Oakland Athletics and Raiders. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and a 2000 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.

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Did Wahle reach an injury settlement or was he released? I didn’t think you could release injured players, and from Ruskell’s statement yesterday, it did not sound like they expected Wahle to pass his physical. Do we know what Wahle’s cap hit will be for this year?

Question for anyone who registered to attend a training camp practice… after you registered did you receive a confirmation email or anything like that? My bank statement shows I paid, but I don’t know if I need to have some kind of proof so that I can get into the practice. Any info on that would be great.

Hamstring? Here’s to hoping it’s nothing that keeps him out for long. So I imagine that moves Lucas to LC and Wilson as RC. Or Jennings to RC in nickel so WIlson can cover the slot. I don’t imagine Hobbs is ready to step into that role, quite yet.

I don’t know everybody leaves Wrotto out of the equation. His time starting last year was impressive along with Willis’. I’d be okay having Willis and Wrotto starting somewhere on the o-line and come what may.

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